Yukio Mishima Quote

Within those confining walls, teachers — a bunch of men all armed with the same information — gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.


"Cigarette" ("Ta- bako") story, quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 110.


Within those confining walls, teachers — a bunch of men all armed with the same information — gave the same lectures every year from the same...

Within those confining walls, teachers — a bunch of men all armed with the same information — gave the same lectures every year from the same...

Within those confining walls, teachers — a bunch of men all armed with the same information — gave the same lectures every year from the same...

Within those confining walls, teachers — a bunch of men all armed with the same information — gave the same lectures every year from the same...